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I am not Hollywood. I am not South Beach. I am Causeway Street. I am Home. I am a Celtic.

Check out GameChannel to track the stats of any game being played tonight.

Follow this link:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba

and scroll down to the Scoreboard (on the right hand side) and find the link to the GameChannelthere. (You may have to wait for the game to start)

Pick GameChannel, wait for it to load. It may take a while, but it is worth it.

Down the right side, there is play-by-play. You can pick any quarter and move the side bar to move up or down. At the top are all the other games playing that night. You can pick any one of the games at the top and switch over to it.

The last time the Boston Celtics faced the Atlanta Hawks, they lost All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo for the remainder of the season and were on their longest skid in nearly six years. Many began to question whether the Celtics should just pack it in the rest of the way and deal Paul Pierce or Kevin Garnett before the trade deadline, but they decided to stay the course - and the results have been almost hard to believe.

Coming off a remarkable comeback against one of the better teams in the Eastern Conference, Boston looks to improve to 14-4 since Rondo went down and win nine in a row at home for the first time since the end of the 2008-09 season when it meets the Hawks on Friday night.

Rondo tore his ACL in a 123-111 double-overtime loss in Atlanta on Jan. 25, Boston's sixth straight defeat as it blew a 27-point lead. The Celtics didn't know the severity of the injury until two days later during a home game against Miami, which they won 100-98 in double OT.

Following that victory, coach Doc Rivers said the team was down but would not give up. "You can write the obituary," Rivers told reporters. "I'm not. You can go ahead, but I'm not.

I'm going to be watching this game from the precarious perch on top of a bar stool. Not so precarious in the beginning but increasingly so after each beer (I usually drink Anchor Steam). Aw, who am I kidding, I'll be sitting down for free throws and halftime and that's about it.

This is a big game. We win this and we are tied with Atlanta and Chicago for 6th and only 1 game behind Brooklyn for 5th. I don't think Brooklyn or Atlanta can handle the heat, so let's crank it up!

So how do you like the new report from Yahoo that had Pierce going to Dallas, with Atlanta getting involved in a three way trade. They wanted a first round pick also. I just did not hear who Dallas was giving up. Josh Smith was coming here.

RosalieTCeltics wrote:So how do you like the new report from Yahoo that had Pierce going to Dallas, with Atlanta getting involved in a three way trade. They wanted a first round pick also. I just did not hear who Dallas was giving up. Josh Smith was coming here.

I don't know why these reporters just can't let this Pierce thing go. Pierce says that Danny never came to him about it, so it really must have been something from either Atlanta or Dallas You're right Cow, not in their wildest dreams.